Word.ws English Dictionary

glasseye

glasseye noun: a fish, the walleyed pike.

Noun

glasseye (plural glasseyes)

  1. A fish, the walleyed pike.
  2. A form of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.
    • Another species of blindness , and of which mention was made when describing the retina , is Gutta Serena , commonly called glass eye. The pupil is more than usually dilated : it is immovable , and bright , and glassy .1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

Forms of glasseye

pluralglasseyes

Origin of glasseye

From glass + eye.

Questions about glasseye

What does glasseye mean?
Glasseye means a fish, the walleyed pike.
What part of speech is glasseye?
Glasseye is a noun.
What is the plural of glasseye?
The plural of glasseye is glasseyes.

Words near glasseye in the dictionary

  1. glassesed
  2. glassesful
  3. glassesless
  4. glasseslike
  5. Glassey
  6. glasseye
  7. glasseyes
  8. glassfish
  9. glassfishes
  10. Glassford
  11. Glassfords

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glasseye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “glasseye.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glasseye. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.